So popular had the Cabbage Patch Kids become by 1985, that the BabyLand General Hospital had to find a larger location in Georgia to handle the influx of families looking to "adopt" one of the dolls.

Although there have been other toy crazes throughout the 20th century, none has inspired the frenzy that met the 1983 debut of the Cabbage Patch Kids. Mass-produced yet all slightly unique—each ...